crew

skeleton crew

The bare minimum amount of employees necessary to keep an office, business, service, etc., running at a basic level. We can't have a restaurant that is completely closed during the slow season, so we keep a skeleton crew on board to serve the few customers who decide to come in.The rigs will have a skeleton crew keeping them running until the company finishes handing over its business to the new owners.

crew cut

A closely cropped haircut, usually for a male, as in The boys all think crew cuts are cooler in summer. This term presumably originated in the navy ( crew referring to a ship's crew), where such a haircut was mandatory. [c. 1940]

The crewman, whose name was not given, allegedly told his fellow shipmates that he stabbed Ma in the neck after the captain angrily grabbed him by the collar because he was not maintaining the correct speed.

MANILA -- The Philippine Navy on Friday denied allegations that its forces had shot dead a crewman of a Taiwan fishing vessel, saying none of its ships were in the area at the time of the apparent incident.

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